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Genres:
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Adventure /
Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Actors:
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Tommy Lee Jones,
Barry Pepper,
Cecilia Suárez,
Vanessa Bauche,
Irineo Alvarez,
Guillermo Arriaga,
Ignacio Guadalupe,
Julio Cedillo,
Dwight Yoakam,
January Jones,
Melissa Leo,
Levon Helm,
Mel Rodriguez,
Josh Berry,
Rodger Boyce
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)114
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Plot Summary:
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A clap in irons is by no chance and quickly buried in the dear desert of west Texas. The assembly is set up and reburied in Van Horn's hamlet cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch shopwalker, kidnaps a Edge Patrolman and forces him to disinter the fullness. With his under lock in tow and the masses tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a risky and fanciful overseas into Mexico.
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Tags:
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Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a Tex-Mex western odyssey about death, revenge and redemption
At some point in most great epics, the hero travels down to the underworld to commune with the dead, unburden himself of the past and learn timeless truths. In Tommy Lee Jones' sprawling contemporary western Three Burials, three men (each arguably the film's hero) go on a similar odyssey together, and while their downward journey may only be taking them south of the Texan border, certainly all the trappings of heaven and hell are to be found there.
Outside a sleepy town in southern Texas, the bullet-riddled corpse of illegal immigrant Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo) is unearthed from a makeshift grave, only to be quickly reburied in a pauper's grave after t...
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